Moscow straddles the line between starchy capital and cultural powerhouse. The Kremlin is the core of political life, a building of intimidating scale.
Go inside, and its cathedrals and museums whisper a thousand stories about Tsars and Tsaritsas, Patriarchs and Princes. Moscow character should be sought in its infinitely walkable streets. Built during the reign of Ivan the Terrible, St. Basil Cathedral is a colourful reminder of Russia bloody past. Arbat Street slices through ‘old’ Moscow, where trinket-shopping tourists tread paths once taken by Tolstoy and Pushkin. Spend a day scuttling through loads of museums.
Moscow, on the Moskva River in western Russia, is the nation cosmopolitan capital. In its historic core is the Kremlin, a complex that home to the president and tsarist treasures in the Armoury.
